A bullet train was speeding across the deserted plains in the Midwest. Grains of wheat flew past the window as two men were talking inside. "A train is traveling at 120 mph,-" Then the man was cut off. "Why are you asking me so trivial questions?" The second man asked. "Well you need to know this when the train comes to a complete stop." The second man looked up. "What?!" Then a loud screeching sound came from the front of the train and then an explosion followed by the second man flying from his seat and slamming his head against the bulkhead. "That's why" The first man said. He walked calmly toward the limp body and checked his pulse. Dead. "Well one job finished'' man thought. He puled a cell phone out of his pocket as he took a sample of the man's blood. "Izzy bring down the copter, and I want to get out of here before the B.E. get here. Then he heard a stopping at the door. The man reached in his other pocked and produced a small grenade. "Open up Matt! We know you're in there." Matt slowly walked over the dead body and placed the grenade's igniter under the door. He then walked to the window, opened it and climbed to the roof. As he was half way to the roof when an explosion ripped through the cabin tossing him from the train. "Shit" he murmured to himself. He looked past his shoulder and saw the flaming car. 'They were impatient.' The grass blew in the wind. The sound of steel wheels grinding on the railway track as the train fell off the track. Then gunfire erupted all around him and Matt took cover behind a rock. Then he felt a sharp jab in his arm and he looked it the direction. One of the marines had managed to exit off the train. Matt pulled out a .45 and left a clean hole in his forehead. Then the sound of helicopter blades was coming in the distance. "Hurry Izzy Hurry." Matt said under his breath. The gunfire increased then he saw a cycle skimming toward him. He stood up from behind the rock and pulled out his G-18 and sprayed a round at the exiting marines who fell to his shots. The driver on the cycle came in firing range. Sweat pored down Matt's brow. He breathed with deep breaths from the bullet wound on his shoulder. The man on the cycle shot a grenade, but is strayed an slammed into one of the train cars. The repercussion from the gun knocked the driver off the cycle, which slowed to a stop. The sound of chopper blades came from over a ridge, which sent Matt sprinting toward the hill. The few remaining marines piled out of the train wreck and aimed their guns at Matt. Izzy at the controls fired out a tomahawk missile at the remaining marines, sending the marines flying. Matt jumped and grabbed a rope ladder hanging from the copter, and looked behind him to see a marine fire a shot at the copter. The shot connected with the fuel tank on the helicopter and the copter blew up into flames. Matt jumped from the rope he was holding onto and rolled into the grass. The copter wings broke off and sliced through a marine. "Damnit!" Matt yelled. He felt a bullet pierce shirt and go into his back. A group of cycles came over the hill. Then something caught his eye. He dashed toward the stranded cycle. He flinched in pain as blood flowed down out his back and he hit the accelerator. He rocketed out of the scene with the cycles shooting bullets at his direction. Mission almost complete. Then he heard a crackle in his earpiece. "Hey Matt ya going to leave me here?" It was Izzy. Matt swung the cycle around, skidding on the loose gravel, and gunned it toward the downed chopper. Then three cycles plowed down the hill toward Matt. The wind began to blow fiercely. Matt grabbed Izzy's hand as he skimmed by. As he did so a grenade exploded right behind them. "Fuck those damn cycles are on our tail. As they passed a group of marines, Matt tossed a grenade into the group of marines. As he did so one of the troops returned fire detonating the grenade before it hit its target. The explosion ripped the frontal hull off the cycle sending a metal sheet flying off behind them. The sheet, propelled from the wind, slammed into one of the cycles behind him. The other two accelerated. "Izzy take the shot!" Matt yelled over the sound of the wind. As Izzy aimed the gun at the cycles another came down the side of the hill. Izzy fired a shot but it shot past the second cycle. Then a grenade exploded passing the third cycle "Izzy! I need you to shot them! Not miss!" Matt yelled. Then Matt saw a canyon on the side of the valley and swung that way. The cycle lurched under the blast of another explosion. Matt yanked at the controls and piloted the craft into the canyon. The canyon walls were yellow and orange from rust o the limestone. One of the cycles caught up with Matt's. Izzy fired shot at the driver. The shot took off the pilot's head, but the shockwave knocked the gun out of Izzy's hand. Their cycle was badly damaged and was slowing down. "Damnet." Matt muttered. The other vultures were gaining on them. Then they began to fire concussively at Matt and Izzy. All the shots were luckily hitting small rocks on the ground. Then Izzy remembered something. "Matt! The gun was set for missile launch!" "What!?!" Matt yelled ducking under a branch. "The gun was set for missile launch!!." "Oh shit!" Then Izzy looked up into the sky there was a large missile breaking through the clouds. Matt saw a canyon gap in front of them and ducked into it. Then one stray grenade knocked off the side repulsion, causing the craft to become extremely unstable. . Thee bottom scraped the ground creating a large spray of sparks. One of the cycle pilots fired a grenade but it detonated as it hit the wave of sparks. "Hold on!" Matt spun sharply 180 degrees around. He kicked off the front of the cycle scattering its insides all over the ground. He and Izzy jumped from the craft as they saw the missile hit the ground. They plunged into a chasm river as the nuke detonated. The explosion shook the ravine knocking off some of the walls. Matt glanced up to see a massive fireball plow over the canyon.
Izzy opened his eyes. "Next time, don't drop the gun." Matt was standing over him on a riverbank. Izzy moaned and rolled over. Matt began to walk toward the water. The world was once again calm. He waded into it and washed off his cuts. After washing off his face he looked up the canyon wall. Most of it had been broken off, there was no canyon, just a large gaping hole. There was only a fast running stream he rubbed his hair and some fell out. Then he felt his pocket and found his comphone. He pulled it out. He looked down the canyon "Sora, we need an evac chopper immediately. "Rodger." Matt flopped the comphone down. Then he heard the noise of someone's footsteps. He looked around and Izzy was just sitting up. He looked the other direction. He saw footprints appear on the sand. He began to walk backwards then sprinted forward and dove in the direction of the footprints. He connected with something. Whatever it was it had a gun. The gun went off in the confusion launching a mortar canister off into the wall. Matt yanked the gun from the invisible convict and stood up. "Ok don't move." He said in a commanding voice. He pointed the gun at the smashed sand. He heard breathing. Then a machine's voice rang out. "You're better than I thought." Matt not moving held the gun at what looked like the assailant's head. Then the person kicked the gun out of Matt's hands and then the figure ran away. "Fuck" Matt mumbled. The noise of helicopter blades cane into hearing distance. Matt looked around, checking for more footprints. He noticed a piece of metal sitting in the water. He walked over to it. It was a sensor mine, not activated. As he picked it up he cringed in pain, holding on to his shoulder. Izzy was walking out of a cave he had hidden in. "What was that?" He questioned. "I don't know." Matt replied. Then he noticed more footprints appear from around the corner. "Oh shit" Izzy muttered. Then the copter appeared over the canyon wall. "Izzy come here." Matt said quietly. The footprints began to appear more rapidly. Matt tossed the sensor mine at the group as he armed it. Matt and Izzy stood still, the footprints didn't move, the sensor mine dug into the ground. The air was perfectly still, a crow cawed in the distance. Matt's hair was blown suddenly by the copter coming over the hillcrest. Then the copter dropped a rope. Matt and Izzy jumped for the rope as the mine popped out of the ground. "Fuck" was all that Matt heard before the mine detonated. Several bodies flew in different directions as the copter took off.
Matt pulled himself into the cabin first and Izzy followed. "I thought you guys were dead." Sora said. "You only use hydrogen missiles as a last ditch measure." "No I didn't use it, geni-ass here dropped the gun." Matt said sarcastically. "Whatever" Sora said unmoved, "Did you get a sample of him?" Matt stared out at the horizon from where they came from. "Yes, yes…" Matt rubbed his back as Izzy began to patch him up with the ample supplies that they had. 'Well at least this mission is over' Matt thought to himself. They flew off toward the city as the sun was setting on the nebular haven.
As they neared the slums of ht city they noticed that there was few cops patrolling the area. "I guess they got spooked from the hydrogen blast and were sent to investigate." Sora commented. "Could be" Matt replied, looking at down from the chopper. Izzy was fooling with his infrared goggles. "Fixed them," He said triumphantly. "Good you'll need them on your next assignment." Sora said. "What do you mean no vacation time?" Izzy whined. "Nope no rest for the weary." Sora landed the chopper on top of a run down skyscraper. Matt jumped off. "I'll only be a minute." He said to Sora. Matt kicked down the door leading into the building. He watched it tumble down the stairs, and break apart. He walked down five flights of stairs, loaded his .45 and then stopped by a door. Matt knocked three times and waited. A voice came form within, "State nature of visit." "Completion of job" Matt replied. The door was opened by a large burly man. He stepped aside and let Matt in. Under a small hanging light stood a man, his name being Joe, a doctor and a scientist. He was the man who created the first perfect clone, age, weight, and height. "Do you have the inventory?" Joe questioned. "Do you have the money?" Matt asked back. "Yes" Joe said smiling. Matt walked toward the table. "Then I have the inventory." Matt slid up his ripped sleeve and pulled out a small box strapped to his arm. He popped open the box and showed the contents. "One tube has a hair with skin sample, the other is cloth with blood on it. "Was the subject terminated?" Joe asked. "Yes" "Proof?" Matt looked at him. "does a hydrogen bomb mean anything to you?" Matt said sarcastically. "Very well, here's the money." The large man slid a briefcase with money toward matt. One of the bodyguards twitched. Matt opened the case, and put on his glasses. "This money is fake, give me the real dough." Matt said looking at Joe. Joe's face became red. "Give me the money, Joe." Then the large man grabbed matt from behind. Matt struggled out of his grip and drew his .45 and fired shot. The figure fell to the ground. He swirled to meet Joe. "Now give me the money." Joe looked angry. "All I have is half the price, that's all I can give you." Matt looked at him firmly. "Give that to me then." Joe slid a small box across the table. "There it is." Matt opened this box. Inside there was a small bomb. "The case had real money below it, to bad you wont be able to use it." Joe said, smirking. Matt tossed the box at Joe. "You'll regret this." Matt yelled. Joe moved to toss the box back at Matt but he was too slow. Matt shot him in the arm as Joe reached the box. "Damn you!" Joe yelled as Matt yelled something into his radio. Matt grabbed the fake money and jumped out the window as Joe tried to draw a gun. As matt plunged through the window he shot through the shattering glass, attempting to kill Joe. It missed but struck the box. The whole room was engulfed in flames. Matt landed inside of the helicopter which was hovering outside, waiting for him. "I thought you said you wouldn't be long." Sora said. Matt looked down at his watch. "Only 10 minutes." Sora piloted the copter through the city and toward their base.
Walking into the old tower Matt enjoyed the smell of metal that clung all around in the air. He stopped and looked around the room, a bad habit he had picked up. He set the rest of his gear down next to the couch. Then he as he bent over he felt a pain in his back and headed toward the washroom. He looked like he had been though hell and back. He had gashes across his face, his arm had a large cut in it and he had a bullet wound in his back. He gently pulled off the bloody under shirt and stepped into the shower. He let the hot water glide down his back, through his wounds, and drain out the bottom. He stood with his hands stretched to the wall, holding himself up. His mind began to think how he ever got into a profession like this.
It all started 20 years ago when WWIII erupted. This through the world into mass chaos and all the governments soon became an anarchy. There was the launching of nuclear missiles at all the large remnants of governments. But after five years of bloodshed there was one faction that the entire world agreed to be led by. The blood eagles. The blood eagles were run by a man known as Tai his ruthlessness got his faction through the war. His General, Davis piloted his armies to victory every time by using biological weapons and mass large vehicles known as mechs. But he also had a side that not everyone knows about. He also has an agent that had assassinated many world leaders. The man with the alias known as T.K. was a master assassin. He has initiated WWIII when he was caught after killing the British prime minister. Then there was his tech specialist. The crafty and evil Yolei. She armed Davis's army with nuclear spores that when breathed put the army into a coma which will hold the victim in it for a year as its internal organs slowly decay. She had also killed Sora's father. He was also an agent but for another faction. He planted mines in all of the technical production rooms in hope to destroy the research that was there. When he was leaving a bullet pierced his armor. He turned to see Yoeli standing with the gun. The bullet was coated in Nuclear Spores. The last transmission he sent was that he had destroyed three of the four labs, and that he loved Sora. Sora now only wanted to be the one to place a knife in Yolei's back.
Matt suddenly opened his eyes, snapped back to reality by the freezing cold water. He jumped back as he heard the door closing. He looked out from the curtain but the person was gone. He turned the shower off and dried himself. Slipping into a pair of pants he stuck in Project 86 and laid on the couch, and fell asleep.
The group known as Shadow Knights was formed after their meetings. Izzy, Sora and Matt made up the pirate group. They were more mercenaries that a group. Izzy was the technical flyer but he still had some battlefield capabilities. He primarily drives a Mech into battle if he is needed, but he is mostly pickup. Then there was Sora, A master of the hand combat weapons. If she entered close combat with any person on the earth, she would win. She was the assassin of the group. Quick, silent, deadly, She has an arsenal of swords, daggers, claws and staves, her favorite. Then he came into the group. He found them talking behind a run down building. He was running from the BE and they helped conceal him as they passed. In return Matt joined the group. He was the infiltrator, the master of destruction. Once he was determined to commit to an assignment, there was no turning back for him until it was completed. Then something came across his mind. Who ran the renegade group of cloaked machines. He knew of a techno wizard, Ken, that created many weapons of destruction but he wouldn't go after the SK's specifically. Then there was Joe, the scientist, who Matt had finished a job for. Yet Joe has nothing do with agents or government politics, all he wants is money.
Sitting up he heard the sound of a hover car shutting down below their building. Sora walked into the room. Her hair was a tangled, he guessed that she had been training her martial arts skills. "What was that?" she said looking at him. Izzy ran into the room. "We got company, and lots of it." As he said that a mortar ripped through the window and exploded in the bathroom. "Shit" Matt yelled. "Grab the money and gear!" Sora yelled jumping over the couch. Izzy darted into his room to grab the computers that had all of his bounty data. Matt looked at his stereo system. "Forget it!" Sora yelled. She had already grabbed all her hand crafted weapons and was slipping on her trench coat. Another mortar exploded against the window pane knocking Sora and Matt on the ground. He scrambled to his feet and dashed into his room. Inside he grabbed his .45s and slipped on a vest. "Izzy we got to go!" Matt yelled. Izzy was busy pulling the wires out from his computer. "Almost ready!" he yelled back Sora was already climbing up the ladder leading to the roof. Izzy was running in front of matt as the door was knocked down. Gunfire ripped through the couch as Matt scrambled up the ladder. He stopped on the last rung and fired a shot at the lead advancing man. He turned and ran toward the copter not caring if he hit him. The blades were powering up on the copter as matt jumped in. One of the men that had managed to climb up the ladder and was looking out when another mortar detonated along the side of the building. "Go Go Go!" Izzy yelled. A bullet ripped past the door in the copter making narrowly missing Matt. But Matt grabbed his back in pain and felt blood. He had ripped open his previous wound. As the building was leaving sight matt turned and fired another shot and smiled to see a man fall to his bullet. Sora piloted the copter out of the city. "I got everything." Izzy said, holding the box with all the money in it. Matt looked out over the city; the sunset cast a strange shadow over the buildings. "Good." He replied. "Ill make a trip into town tomorrow for food and munitions." Matt knew that they were chased out by the BE. They usually don't care about bounty hunters unless Gorchov had something to do with B.E. Then it hit him. He remembered marines running out of the train. Marines only are used for diplomatic visitors to the B.E. high council. Joe only told him that Gorchov was going into the city for business, not to meet with the B.E. Which means that Joe had something in mind when he wanted him dead. "Izzy when we get there I want you to see if you could break into the B.E. and see what Gorchov was doing going to the City." Izzy looked over at him and smiled, "Matt he was going to work with Yolei on another Biological weapon. He had the virus with him on the train. I thought that's why Joe wanted you to kill him and get the Virus canister." Matt looked confused as he swiped hair off his face. 'Someday…someday'